Dead Men Walk

1943 "Devil's sorcery, as a dead man returns for vengeance!"
4.8| 1h4m| en
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When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.

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Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
utgard14 PRC cheapie about a small-town doctor whose devil-worshipping twin brother is killed, only to come back from the dead hellbent on revenge. George Zucco plays both parts and does a great job. He brings some much-needed class to an otherwise shoddy Poverty Row production. That isn't to say it's a bad movie. It all depends on your expectations, really. It's hard sometimes to judge these old cheapies, as most of the available prints today are in bad shape with a lot of audio hiss and poor picture quality. If you're a fan of George Zucco, I doubt you'll be disappointed. Dwight Frye has a small Renfieldesque part. He's enjoyable as always. This is also the final film of Mary Carlisle. It's a nice unassuming little vampire movie. Slow-going but watchable. Love the opening.
bkoganbing Mary Carlisle who was a WAMPAS baby star back in 1932 and did three films with Bing Crosby at Paramount ends her career with this rather sorry horror film from poverty row Producer's Releasing Corporation. But she takes a back seat to George Zucco playing brothers in Dead Men Walk, a good and a bad Dr. Zucco.The bad Dr. Zucco was killed in a fight with the good one, but with the aid of his acolyte slave Dwight Frye he comes back from the dead as a vampire and he starts killing people. And since they're twins folks around the area think it's the good and live doctor just gone bad.The bad Zucco also bites Mary Carlisle and tries to put her under his influence as surely as Bela Lugosi did with Helen Chandler. In fact this whole film is a cheap imitation of Dracula without the great Gothic scenes and atmosphere that Lugosi's film at Universal a classic.I'll bet Mary Carlisle wished that Bing was crooning a love song at her again. She left the movies after this stinker and I'm sure at 100 years of age doesn't look back fondly on this one.
info-16951 * More campire than vampire. * According to IMDb, Mary Carlisle was born in 1912 and no date of death is given. * Perhaps those vampire bites have affected her longevity. * How differently we would perceive the 1930s and 1940s if the movies had been filmed in color. The era seems impossibly distant. * This is possibly the most hypophotonic movie ever made. I can almost count the photons in some scenes. * If you're wondering why the catalog of disjointed thoughts, it's because IMDb doesn't allow reviews shorter than ten lines, for some logorrheic reason, so I'll keep on rambling, line after line, until IMDb's software lets me know that the "review" is long enough for submission on this site. * I've seen many reviews shorter than ten lines. Does anyone know how to avoid having to write reviews with a minimum of ten lines?
Claudio Carvalho During the funeral mass of Elwyn (George Zucco), the local Kate (Fern Emmett) accuses him of evilness. Later, his brother Dr. Lloyd Clayton (George Zucco) and tutor of his niece Gayle Clayton (Mary Carlisle) tells her and her fiancé Dr. David Bently (Nedrick Young) that his brother has become obsessed by mysticism and black magic since he traveled to India. During the night, Elwyn comes to Dr. Lloyd Clayton's house and accuses Dr. Clayton of pushing him in a cliff to die. Further, he tells Dr. Clayton that he will revenge, slowly killing Gayle and transforming her in a vampire. Dr. Clayton does not believe in what he has seen and heard, but when Gayle gets mysteriously sick and Dr. Clayton becomes the prime suspect of David and the locals, he finally accepts that his brother is a vampire and tries to find his coffin to destroy him."Dead Man Walk" is a creepy low-budget vampire movie visibly inspired in "Dracula", with a good story and acting. The cinematography of the DVD that I watched is a kind of blurred in the scenes in the cemetery, maybe because of a lighting problem in the shot, but the story is told in a dark atmosphere and I liked this underrated film. George Zucco has great performance in his double role. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Mortos Que Andam" ("Dead That Walk")